Episode 5 - The Beach

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 5 - The Beach 

In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Jordan Mallon chats with me about: 

Torosaurus, splitting and lumping, buying the book, reading the book, being uncomfortable with disembowelment, sexual dimorphism in dinosaurs, garials, Jurassic Park, paleo curricula, real-life moments from Jurassic Park, breeding, velociraptors, bad veterinarians, hadrosaurs, ornithischians, following the White Rabbit, Alice in Wonderland, unbirthdays and a little bit of Spiclypeus. 

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Sauropod stride lengths
• Torosaurus taxonomy 

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

Intro: T-Shirts. Outro: Death of a Dream.

The Text:

Guitierrez is puzzled by the mystery of the strangely described, biting basilisk lizard – and is interested in observing the specimen himself, so he visits Cabo Blanco.

Discussion surrounds Building a Mystery, Jurassic Park's MacGuffin, Ecological Criticism, and Due Diligence. 

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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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

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! 

#JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton 

0:00 - Intro

0:48 - Featuring music from SNALE the rock band.

1:25 - What do sauropods walk like?

2:47 - Is Torosaurus a distinct species from Triceratops?

4:00 - My special guest, paleontologist Dr. Jordan Mallon

8:00 - Lumping and splitting pachycephalosaurus

14:00 - 1993 printing of Jurassic Park

23:20 - Why reread Jurassic Park?

23:52 - Was Dr. Harding a good veterinarian at Jurassic Park?

33:25 - Sexual dimorphism in extant and possibly extinct speices

51:12 - Synopsis of The Beach in Jurassic Park 

54:20 - Analyzing the literary and stylistic techniques

55:15 - Discussions on the MacGuffin, Ecological Criticism, and Due Diligence