The Josh Innes Show - Tom Brady's Cloned Dog

Episode Date: November 5, 2025

Tom Brady spent $50,000 to clone his dog. I think I'd like to be rich enough to clone a dog. But, the more I think about it, it's actually kind gross and weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So he's in with like, you know, these big corporations that do all this shit. I think he's invested in one of them and they cloned his dog. His dog died in 2023. They cloned it and now he has a dog that looks very similar to his other dog. I don't even know that that's really cloning. I guess they use the DNA and they did all this. I mean, it just sounds like what you could have done if you just made it some dogs with that dog's like, you know, I guess.

I don't really know how all of it works, but apparently he's got a dog. I have some issues with this, though. Okay? Let's get into this after these words. First of all, there is a level of rich I'd like to get to, and that level of rich is being able to spend $50,000 to clone my dog, right? I think about this, like Luther. We love Luther very much.

Would I have cloned Luther if I could have? I guess. But I would have known it wasn't actually Luther. right? Let me start with issue number one. Issue number one with Tom Brady and all of this is that he cloned the dog, but it's a different dog and he gave it a different name. If I'm going to clone the dog, I'm going to treat it like it's the exact same dog and I'm going to give it the same name and I'm going to just continue carrying that out. That would be my plan. I wouldn't just treat it like it's another dog because at that point, what was the point of cloning the dog? You could have

just made it some dogs and made a dog that looks exactly like your dog. whatever. The idea, like, the whole thing is dumb to me because you've got to carry on the facade or the ruse that this dog is the same dog. It's a clone, right? It's like mini me. It's like your little mini-clone. Bring in the clone. Like, you've got to treat it like it's basically the same dog. You can't give it like a different name and all that shit. Then what's the point? What point is there in creating another dog and then giving him a different name? The dog has to have the same name. And I also think that it loses some of its fun if everyone knows the dog is a clone. Like the only reason that you have to clone a dog is because someone in your family or someone you know doesn't know that it's cloned.

Like if I were Tom Brady, I would have just cloned the dog without anybody knowing. Again, this might be a tough put. But I would have cloned the dog without anybody knowing. Then I would have just carried on like the previous dog wasn't dead. And I would have just said, hey, here's our dog. That would have been the move, right? Because otherwise, you just cloned a dog for no real reason. It doesn't make anybody happier, I wouldn't imagine.

I wouldn't think. You all know that the dog is not the actual dog. So someone in the family needs to think that it is the actual dog, right? So like one of your kids or whatever, tell your kids, your ex-wife, whatever, that it's the same dog. And you just carry on. There's an episode of the King of Queens that involves Doug's mom and dad and his childhood dog. And Carrie meets the childhood dog for the first time. And what we learn in the episode is that the parents have never told Doug that the dog died. Because the dog would be like

40 years old if it were the same dog. So they just never told him that the dog died. And they've been replacing the dog with different dogs the whole time and not told Doug that his beloved pet dog is dead. And then Carrie goes through the whole thing about trying to make them tell Doug that that's not the real dog. But that's kind of the move you have to do in this case. If you clone a dog, then you must at least have it one person. That'd be the fun of it. The fun of cloning the dog is that not everybody's in on it, that they just think it's the same dog. Now, eventually, if they were wise at all, they'd be like, how is our dog 40 years old? But you burn that bridge when you get there. I don't know. I'm debating with myself if I'd like to clone the dog,

Because it'd look just like it. Like, it'd be just like the DNA of Luther, for instance. But would it be something I'd actually like to engage in? Because there is something to be said about the Judd-Krandel philosophy that sometimes dad is better. Sometimes dad is better. Maybe it is. You know? I don't know.

It's weird. That's the thing about being rich. Rich people can just try weird shit. And I'd like to be that level of rich. Like, I'd like to be try weird shit level of rich. Like, I'd like to sit back and be like, you know what? I'm so rich. I got 50 grand laying around.

Fuck it, I'm going to clone my dog, see what happens. Like, that'd be a fun level of rich. A fun level of frivolity. You know, like, I could, there's enough money that I could make where I wouldn't be clone a dog for 50 grand rich. But I've told you this before. I at one point had enough money where I could, you know, do like the kind of fuck you things that a single, I say single, a dude without a family could do. Like I had a girlfriend. I had Jilly, right? We eventually got married. When I was in Houston the second time, I had enough money and I didn't have debt and credit card debt and all this

other shit that I have now gambling and shit and setting money on fire like I've done for the last handful of years. But I had enough cash where I was just like, fuck it. Like I could do whatever. Could I have pulled out $50,000 and cloned a dog? No, but did I grab $15,000 and buy furniture in cash one day? Yeah, did I buy a $900 dinner for my family? Yeah, it felt pretty fucking cool. I think I'd like to get to the point where I could clone a dog. I don't, dude, Tom Brady spent more to clone his dog than what I'm going to make this year. Like, if we're just being totally fucking honest, now I will make more than that with my other shit. But my actual salary here, based on my salary and radio right now, I would not make enough money to clone a dog. That's the

position I'm in in life right now. There was a time that might, like, a couple of, I'd get a couple of paychecks and be able to clone that damn dog. But I don't know that I'd want to. And then you wonder if you clone the dog, is it like a pet cemetery scenario where you clone the dog? And then it comes back as basically the same dog, but it's also like, I don't know, more ornery or maybe evil or might eat your face. These are the questions I have about the idea of cloning a dog. Like, I'd like more details on this. I need more tom. Brady cloned dog details. Like, is it the same, like, let's see, Tom Brady dog clone?

I need details on this. How Tom Brady cloned his dog? Let's see here. Brady shared the details about Junie as part of a news release by Colossil Biosciences, which announced it as acquired a different company that specializes an animal cloning. I love my animals. They mean the world to me and my family, Brady said. A few years ago, I worked with Colossil and leveraged their non-invasive cloning

technology through a simple blood draw of our family's elderly dog before she passed. Again, it's not really like it's the same dog, though. In a few short months, Colossil gave my family a second chance with a clone of our beloved dog. I'm excited how Colossal and Vijan's tech together can help both families losing their beloved pets while helping to save endangered species. Okay. You're doing, like, I under, like, I get it. it, and I get the sadness of the dog dying? Brady's previous dog, Lua, was a beloved pet of Brady's, ex-wife, Giselle Bungent, and their

children. The family mourn the loss of Lua in December 2023, according to an Instagram post by Bungent. Our little Lulu, our guardian angel, is gone to heaven. She will forever live in our hearts. Yeah, but she's dead. So like the clone, basically all you did was created like an offspring of this dog, right? The family then welcomed Junie, which Brady shared on November 4th, is a clone of Lua. Brady, is not the first celebrity to clone a dog, Paris Hilton. I did look this up. I thought Paris Hilton had cloned Tinkerbell, which would have been huge. That is not the case. Barbara Streisand revealed in 2018 that she had her beloved dog clone twice. The world's first clone dog was produced in

South Korea in 2025, but I need more details on this. Like colossal bioscience's CEO, Ben Lamb, compared the process to cloning to using in vitro fertilization with skin samples instead of sperm what you do is when you have a cell any cell type it's called the somatic cell you actually take the nucleus out of that cell and you put it into that egg of a cell okay like this is shit that i this is way above my pay grade here and that process better known as cloning is also referred to a somatic cell nuclear transfer and once you do that that essentially becomes an embryo that you put into a surrogate and then you know after xyz number of gestational days you get either puppies or cats or in the cases of horses, horses from those clone cells.

He was asked on today whether the cloning process creates an animal of just the same appearance or that animal of the same behavioral traits. When you clone an animal, it's an identical genetic copy. So it's the physical traits, its appearance, but a lot of the behavioral traits as well come with that. That's still environmental factors that affect all of us. Cloning, okay, like, I don't know. I think it's kind of bullshit A Gallup poll in May

found that 59% of respondents said cloning animals is morally wrong while 34% found it acceptable I don't find it morally wrong like I'm not bothered by the idea of it I just don't see like you're getting a dog that looks like your other dog I think we're misusing

the term cloning and maybe I know absolutely nothing but like that doesn't feel like yeah it looks I guess what cloning is it looks like the dog but it's not the fucking dog Again, it's not pet cemetery. He didn't go bury the dead dog and it comes back in its form as an ornary evil motherfucker, but it's the same dog. It's not the same dog.

You basically created an offspring of the dog. It's $50,000 to clone a dog, by the way. I don't know. I'm not, I don't find it morally wrong or anything like that. But I just find it like, like I would know it's not the same fucking dog. So great, it's a dog that looks like Luther and that's kind of cool. but I know it's not Luther I know he's fucking dead

I don't know this is just rich people shit this is like rich people doing whatever the fuck rich people want to do shit this is like there's no real rules for rich people so why not like hey I got 50 Tom Brady probably makes 50 grand every time he says

incomplete pass on the broadcast so like 50 grand is nothing to Tom Brady he could throw 50 grand out there and say oh fuck it I'll just clone my dog because why the fuck not you know who's really pissed off by this are the dogs that are sitting in the shelter

like there's some dog that probably hears about this and this dog is like, wait a minute you mean to tell me my ass is the longest tenured motherfucker in this damn dog pound this shelter and you mean to tell me that I can't

get adopted but these rich motherfuckers are spending $50,000 to clone their other dogs that's what I don't know in my mind that's what these dogs do they all get together and they talk about shit like in dog world they all know what's going on in dog world so all dogs know the other shit that's happening with other dogs so they're sitting there in the pound right now like hey you hear this shit they're like on dog instagram

somehow and they're like like there's you know like a little dog sitting there talking to other little dog like through the little holes in the cages and he's like you know something this ain't this some shit he's like hey hey Steve how long have you been in here shit dude I'm going on eight months man I ain't nobody I had that one trial run but shit went south because, you know, I ate that guy's slipper, and now I'm, now I'm back in here. I don't know that I'm ever getting sprung from this shit. How long you've been here, Pete? Man, dude, I'm going on six months.

I did get a trial run myself, but then I ran out of the house and ran down the street, and I tried to escape, and then they found me, and then, you know, I hump the fucking mailman, so I'm back in here. I don't think I'm ever getting out. Yeah, it's tough for us out here because you know what happens? Rich people are cloning their fucking dogs. They don't need us. Like, I choose to believe that they look at those and, like, like, like, dogs.

that look at dogs getting cloned they look at it the same way like black women look at white women dating black dudes so like all the all the good black dudes are being taken by the damn uh by damn white women well it's the same concept here like these dogs are like we're good dogs but all the good owners are being taken by god damn clone dogs that might have been a little deeper than it needed to be but that's how i see it i just see these dogs they're sitting there and they're like what the fuck dude they're like tom why don't you just come adopt us. We're sitting here. We're in the pound. Nobody wants us and you're out here cloning your dog and you know it's not the same damn dog. It just looks like him. You basically have a dog fuck doll as all you have. That's essentially what it is.

A clone of your dog is not the same damn dog. Therefore, you're just like it's basically like when you used to go out and buy like a Jenna Jameson rubber vagina. It's all it is. It's not even the same dog. It doesn't have the same spirit, the same heart, all that shit. It's stupid. It's weird, rich people shit.

Now I've totally, over the course of 13 minutes, my opinion's kind of gone from, oh, that's kind of funny and why not. To it's weird, creepy, rich people shit. You start cloning dogs. You know what the next logical step is for someone that clones dogs? Hunting people for sport. That's the level of rich you are. You are hunting people for sport level of rich when you can spend 50 grand on cloning a fucking dog.