Episode 60 - Almost Paradigm

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 60 - Almost Paradigm.

In this episode, my terrific guests Matt Kelly and Matthew Milligan of the Weird Al-gorithm podcast join the show to chat with me about:

PeeWee Herman and Paul Reubens, The Bicycle Thieves, Weird Al Yankovich, One Hit Thunder, Wheatus, podcasting, digging through music shops to find Weird Al albums, polkas, Yoda, MacArthur Park, Alapalooza, Off The Deep End, Bohemian Rhapsody v. Bohemian Polka, the punkrock roots of Weird Al, Green Jelly, claymation by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund, music videos, Dinosaurs Attack!, Barney the Dinosaur, I Love You, You Hate Me, parody choices, UHF, the Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesotra, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Vectipelta barretti, a new ankylosaurian dinosaur from theLower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, UK
• A potentially fatal cranial pathology in a specimenof Tarchia

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

Intro: Toucans.  Outro: Chinese Cafe.

The Text:

This week’s text is Almost Paradigm, spanning from pages 380 – 384.

Synopsis:

Hammond is uncomfortable with Malcolm’s sepsis, and leaves for a walk believing that the park is under control now, and is safe. On his walk back to his bungalow, he stews over how unfit everyone he’d hired to work at Jurassic Park had been, blaming them all for its downfall – and taking no responsibility of his own. Then he hears the roar of the juvenile tyrannosaurus, and panics. Out of fear and anger, he winds up falling down a ravine, landing in a river below, with a broken ankle. It turns out the tyrannosaur roar is just a recording being broadcast over loud speakers, as Tim and Lex are playing around on the computer in the control room, and there was no danger after all. 

Discussions surround:

Dramatic Irony, Responsibility and Safety, Considering whether or not you should, and Almost Paradise v. Almost Paradigm.

Corrections:

I said that Nedry didn't turn off the fences in the movie - when, of course he did. Arnold also turns off the power, but Nedry did it first. My mistake. Sorry. 

Side effects: 

May cause you to become ... weird!

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