Episode 22 - The Tour pt. 2

Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too. 

Find the episode webpage at: Episode 22 - The Tour pt. 2

In this episode, my terrific guest Danielle Wigle, who chats with me about:

Teaching the book in high school, film adaptations, media literacy, the softer more empathetic Hammond, Carrousel of Nations, Windsor festivals, her first time, VHS cassettes, Ellie Sattlers' problematic representation, Laura Dern, Oh Balls!, having an Attenborough, socialist literature, velociratpors are stock dividends, the island is a failure, why Nedry was so upset, the InGen Incident, what if Nedry didn't die?, Samuel L. Jackson as Ray Arnold, Ray vs. John, being hard on Dr. Harding, the electric waterfall, gruesome depictions of death, Hammond's death co-opted in The Lost World, we quote the be-Jesus out of the movie, where does Hammond's wealth come from?, female characters like Bobbie Carter, Alice Levine and Lex, Tim Murphy, Billy from Jurassic Park III, Donald Gennaro, Ian Malcolm, and a lot more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• New giant carnivorous dinosaur reveals convergent evolutionary trends in theropod arm reduction (Meraxes gigas)
• First definitive ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Jilin Province, northeastern China (Jakapil kaniukura)

Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases 

Intro: Atom-Age Vampire-Cat In The Brain.  Outro: Hummingbird.

The Text:

This week’s text is The Tour pt. 3, as we continue extrapolating and exfoliating all the details out of this massive, consequential, dense chapter, spanning from pages 92 – 111. 

Discussions surround:

Robert Bakker / The Dinosaur Heresies, Jack Horner and maiasaura nesting habits, Henry Fairfield Osborn’s 1917 publication Skeletal Adaptations of Ornitholestes, Struthiomimus, Tyrannosaurs.”

As well as Responsibility and safety, The Illusion of Control, Child of the 80s, Compared to the movie, Her father’s daughter, DinosaursGod complex, Spared no expense, Dodgson’s man, and Chekhov’s Gun.

Side effects: 

May cause adrenocortically mediated postnatal stress syndrome. 

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Thank you!

The Jura-Sick Park-cast is a part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry, and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers.

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Thank you, dearly, for tuning in to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the Jurassic Park podcast where we talk about the novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. Until next time! 

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