Jurassic Park Cast

Episode 55 - The Grid

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 55 - The Grid.
In this episode, my terrific guest author Roselle Lim joins the show to chat with me about:
Forest fires, Tiny Toon Adventures, Steven Speilberg's endorsements, Jurassic Park, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, immigrating to Canada, how to put dinosaurs into your cookbook, eating crocodiles, Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, wicked stepmothers, employing fairy tales and fables into creative fiction, cooking analogies!, writing hope into the endings, disgusing the villains in your life as characters in your novels, allusions to myths and fairy tales, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Ian Malcolm's cynical perspective like Alice, a subversive text disguised as a children's tale, learning English from watching wreslting, Jurassic Park as a cautionary tale, social media, following the white rabbit, analyzing Dr. Alan Grant, Ellie was way too good for Grant, the insane land of Wonderland, navigating Wonderland, satirizing Victorian institutions like the monarchy, writing subversive texts inside children's literature, Jurassic Park as a subversive text, and much more!
Her latest novel: 
You can order it here: Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club
Plus dinosaur news about:
Feather Quill Knobs in the Dinosaur Velociraptor 
Iyuku raathi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Black Licorice.  Outro: Sally Ride.
The Text:
This week’s text is The Grid, spanning from pages 345 – 350.
Synopsis:
Tim struggles to get power restored, in order to save their friends in the Lodge, but three raptors leap up to the balcony and enter the second floor of the Visitor Center. Lex and Tim snag a key card from a dead security officer and escape into another room. 
Discussions surround:
The history of Error 404 File Not Found.
Corrections:
Side effects: 
May cause you to smell forest fires from hundreds of miles away. 
Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).
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

Episode 54 - Return Part 3

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 54 - Return Pt. 3.
In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Tom R. Holtz Jr. joins the show to chat with me about:
field work, Jane the teenaged T. rex, Bob Dylan's birthday, Jurassic Park's (1993) has its 30th anniversary coming out, Crichton and Speilberg's efforts to produce an authentic dinosaur experience, introducing velociraptors to the public, Jurassic Park's lasting power, depicting dinosaurs in the Jurassic World franchise, the most prolific element of set design ever, a world without extinction, fossil tyrannosaurs at auction actually attracting more money than black market clones in Fallen Kingdom, centrosaurines with holes in their frills, Patchy from Walking With Dinosaurs, Johns Hopkins University, overcoming challenges collecting data, processing fossilized pollen to recreate paleoecosystems, how to operate the Phylogenetic Analysis Machine, acquiring the Truth with a capital T, transgressing the Scientific Era into the New Paradigm, The Arctometatarsalian Condition, running theropods, and then we geek out over Tyrannosaurus, and much more!
Plus dinosaur news about:
An exceptionally preserved armored dinosaur reveals themorphology and allometry of osteoderms and their horny epidermal coverings
New data on Kansaignathus sogdianus, a dromaeosaurid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Tajikistan
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Black Coffee.  Outro: Black Licorice.
The Text:
This week’s text is Return, spanning from pages 317 – 344.
Synopsis:
Sixth Iteration – “Systems recovery may prove impossible” (p. 315).
In this final installment, Grant and Gennaro make it back to the visitor center; Tim and Lex make it to Control; and Ellie escapes with her life. 
Discussions surround:
The Sixth Iteration, The Dinosaurs, Doing the Math, Park Management, Island Layout.
 
Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).
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

Episode 53 - Return Part 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 53 - Return Pt. 2.
In this episode, my terrific guest Ali Nabavizadeh joins the show to chat with me about:
Kansas, Kansas Official State Land fossil Silvisaurus, Tylosaurus, Pteranodon, the bloat and float hypothesis, The Wizard of Oz, Jurassic Park, fascinating areas of contestation, paleoart, the novel Jurassic Park, Triceratops beaks, mouthes, tongues, jaw power, and their hypothetical behaviours, triceratops and tyrannosaurs squaring off against each other, a tribute to the recently retired Dr. Peter Dodson in a special issue of Anatomical Record, An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology by Dr. Dave Weishampel and Dr. Ali Nabavzadeh, huge hadrosaurs, dental batteries, clarifying a hadrosaur's teeth, inset teeth in ornithischians, hadrosaur beaks, sauropod bites and digestion, surprises at the beginning of the novel, and much more!
Plus dinosaur news about:
How Triceratops got its face: An update on the functional evolution of the ceratopsian head (Triceratops horridus)
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Chinese Cafe.  Outro: Black Coffee.
The Text:
This week’s text is Return, spanning from pages 317 – 344.
Synopsis:
In this second installment, Grant turns the generators back on and finds Gennaro! Wu gets eviscerated and Tim and Lex confront a raptor in the kitchen! 
Discussions surround:
Show don't tell, Something went wrong, similarities, and Hubris.
Corrections:
Side effects: 
May cause bloating and floating, and subsequently becoming depicted in paleoart. 
Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).
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

Episode 52 - Return Part 1

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 52 - Return Pt. 1.
In this episode, my terrific guests Phil and Lindsay return to the show to chat with me about:
what types of podcasts they'd host themselves, how to pronounce that thing at the Royal Ontario Museum (Futalognkosaurus?!), To me, it will always be the Subway $5 Foot-long o-saurus, Beloved by Toni Morrison, It by Stephen King, Dracula, The Third Policeman, Vanity Fair, comparing Michael Crichton to your favourite authors, relating to the characters in Jurassic Park, relating Henry Wu's death to "Glenn" from The Walking Dead, (yo, don't click that link unless you know what's coming!), Ellie Sattler as bait, Dr. Henry Wu's hubris, who should have been bait to lure the raptors away, the complexity of ecosystems, who is Ian Malcolm?, a Biblical influence on Western ideology, Crichton's voice via Malcolm, and much more!
How Triceratops got its face: An update on the functional evolution of the ceratopsian head (Triceratops horridus)
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Buzzsaw Party Boy.  Outro: Chinese Cafe.
The Text:
This week’s text is Return, spanning from pages 317 – 344.
Sixth Iteration – “Systems recovery may prove impossible” (p. 315).
We’ll cover this in part three when there’s a bit more time available to us. 
Synopsis:
This chapter is huge – and so, please allow me to address this in portions, as we scheme to make this a multi-episode chapter. And indeed, it’s as consequential and meaningful as The Tour was, way back when we had to divide that chapter up into three parts.
In this first part: Grant drives back to the Visitor Center via the underground tunnel (p. 317), stashes the kids in the cafeteria at the visitor center, and then heads out to restore power at the generator shed. Meanwhile, Muldoon and Sattler conceive a plot to distract the raptors, ensuring Grant is free to move around.
But the raptors prove to be far more cunning than they could have imagined…
Discussions surround:
Timeline, Feminism, The Lodge, Contrivance in Plot, Park Management and the Island Layout. 
Corrections:
I said that in Utah there were more than 42 ecosystems now identified in the Mesozoic rocks, but my guest Dr. Jim Kirkland said "more than 30." So, I got that terrifically wrong!
Side effects: 
May cause you to become incredibly famous. 
Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).
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

Episode 51 - Control

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 51 - Control.
In this episode, my terrific guest Lindsey Kinsella joins the show to chat with me about:
marketing titles internationally, his terrific novel The Lazarus Taxa, The Tanis Site and Dinosaurs: The Last Day / Dinosaur Apocalypse!, imagining living in Late Cretaceous North America, what influence does Jurassic Park play, being inspired to put in the amount of research for the novel that Michael Crichton did, why do kids love dinosaurs?, 65 (2023), time travel, Timeline, Lazarus taxa, Douglas Adams, leptoceratops, imagining dinosaur behaviours and palaeoecosystems, dinosaur diets, where to find the Lazarus Taxa, and much more!
Plus dinosaur news about:
Ornithischian dinosaurs in Southeast Asia: a review with palaeobiogeographic implications 
Ontogeny and variation of the pachycephalosaurinedinosaur Sphaerotholus buchholtzae, and its systematics within the genus (Sphaerotholus buchholtzae)
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Shelter Dog.  Outro: Buzzsaw Party Boy.
The Text:
This week’s text is Control, spanning from pages 298 – 314.
Synopsis:
While considering what to do with the tranquilized Tyrannosaur and boasting that full control has been restored to Jurassic Park, the auxiliary power runs out. As the power goes out, the waterfall is halted, and the electric door separating Grant from the kids is unlocked and opened.
Arnold and Wu review the system printout and sees that they’ve been running on auxiliary power since they reset the system back at 5:14 a.m. 
Discussions surround:
Doing the Math, Malcolm's History of the Western World, Timeline, Show, don't tell, Crichton Tropes, Contrivances of Plot, Movie Adaptations, Control is a Hoax, Hammond's Dream, and Island Layout.
Corrections:
I said that in Utah there were more than 42 ecosystems now identified in the Mesozoic rocks, but my guest Dr. Jim Kirkland said "more than 30." So, I got that terrifically wrong!
Side effects: 
May cause your Leptoceratops to become a Kleptoceratops!
 
Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).
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

Episode 50 - Tyrannosaur

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 50 - Tyrannosaur.
In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Jim Kirkland joins the show to chat with me about:
Excavating dinosaurs, traversing the badlands, volunteers on the site, extracting soft tissues (but not DNA) from fossils, ankylosaurs, studying fossils, Utahraptor Megablock, 3D printing fossils,  naming dinosaurs after people, like: Nedcolbertia justinhoffmani, Martharaptor, Gastonia; dromaeosaurs, velociraptor, utahraptor, not naming a dinosaur after Steven Spielberg, Super Slasher, the future of paleontology, The Dinosaurs A - Z song from Dinosaur Train, tail-standing protoceratops, living and dying in dunes, and burrowing dinosaurs, and much more!
And The Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems Conference is going to Utah in June.
One of Dr. Kirkland's talks on dromaeosaurs: Utahraptor and Dromaeosaurs.
Plus dinosaur news about:
Ornithischian dinosaurs in Southeast Asia: a review with palaeobiogeographic implications
Ontogeny and variation of the pachycephalosaurine dinosaur Sphaerotholus buchholtzae, and its systematics within the genus (Sphaerotholus buchholtzae)
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Toucans.  Outro: Shelter Dog.
The Text:
This week’s text is Tyrannosaur, spanning from pages 288 – 298.
Synopsis:
Muldoon and Gennaro locate the Big Rex and head out to tranquilizer her. Meanwhile, Lex, Tim and Grant plummet over the waterfall where the Big Rex has been waiting to eat them. The tyrannosaur loses them in the water, but finds the life vest.
Meanwhile, Grant snags the kids, resuscitates Lex from drowning and leads them up a path behind the waterfalls to hide from the Tyrannosaur. Behind the falls, Grant finds a secured maintenance facility, golf cart, and juvenile velociraptor, but unfortunately, he gets separated from the kids by a locked door. He tranquilizes the raptor, discovering that it’s a male that was bred in the wild.
The kids, on the other hand, are locked out and the tyrannosaur bursts through the waterfalls, uses its tongue like an elephant trunk to catch Tim, and is about to eat him, when it falls asleep. 
Discussions surround:
The Dinosaurs, Timeline, Believe Me! I know!, Crichton Tropes, Contrivances in Plot, Park Management and Movie Adaptations. 
Corrections:
Side effects: 
May cause you to threaten lawsuits to any and all people who use the word "Jurassic," and cost you having Utahraptor named after you. 
Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).
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

Episode 49 - Aviary

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 49 - Aviary.
In this episode, my terrific guest Phil Hore returns to the show to chat with me about:
celebrating Australian birthdays, his novels, Dracula, The Mummy, The Three Musketeers, all that stuff!, Jack the Ripper (tours), the Aviary, JP III's pteranodons..., The Lost World, Dinosaur World, Paleo Planet, the pterosaurs, Cricthon's original script, Lex's voice in the audio book, the misconception that pterosaurs are dinosaurs, Crichton's writing process, why do kids love dinosaurs?, cloning and science, pterosaur feet, paleoartist John Conway and his depictions of pterosaurs, why the Spinosaurus murders the Tyrannosaurus, "thintelligence," then we open the entire book up and get right down to its core message! Phil SOLVES the novel in this episode, folks!, Phil Hore's Youtube channel, and his podcast: The Bizzare History of Australia, and much more!
Plus dinosaur news about:
Cearadactylus atrox Leonardi & Borgomanero, 1985  (Cearadactylus atrox)
Redescription of Cearadactylus atrox (Pterosauria,Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation (Santana Group)of the Araripe Basin, Brazil
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/ 
Intro: Maybe Days.  Outro: Toucans.
The Text:
This week’s text is Aviary, spanning from pages 276 – 287.
Synopsis:
Arnold and Malcolm suppose that Grant and the kids are having challenging navigating the park, because they’ve yet to successfully trigger a motion sensor, and Malcolm shows that the 92 per cent coverage of the motion sensors has decidedly insufficient, to Arnold. Arnold hopes that nobody has gone into the aviary, because the pterosaurs are too dangerous.
Then, Grant and the kids enter the aviary and find that the pterosaurs are too dangerous, and escape with their lives – thanks to Lex’s baseball glove.
Meanwhile, Malcolm waxes philosophical with Sattler over the way of the world, and how misdirected we as a civilization have become.
Finally, Grant and the kids find themselves with nowhere to turn as two dilophosaurs are at the riverside where they’d like to pass. The tyrannosaur distracts them, as the raft slips by unnoticed. 
Discussions surround:
Show Don't Tell, The Dinosaurs, Control is a Hoax, Timeline, Feminism, Contrivances in the Plot, Park Management, Movie Adaptation, The Murphys at Home, Crichton Tropes, Thintelligence, Hammond's Dream, Almost Paradigm, Jurassic World Dominion and Island Layout.
Corrections:
 
Side effects: 
May cause guano droppings to streak across your body while you're running for cover!
Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).
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

April Fools!The Juras-Sick Park-Cast blooper reel

April Fools!
Well, since you spent the effort to download and click on this – here are a few … behind the scenes things, or outtakes from the show that I usually spend a lot of time taking out!
What's in here? A bunch of gross noises … and an interview with my cat.
This episode is trash – sorry you had to listen to it! This seems like something someone who was very appreciative that people were tuning in to listen to the show wouldn’t do – but … I’m not a wise man. I’m a big dumb Jurassic Park fan.
Thank you dearly for tuning in to the Juras Sick Park Cast blooper reel. I promise, I won’t do it again.
There's a SPIDER ON YOUR HEAD! Just kidding ... April Fools! 

Episode 48 - Search

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 48 - Search.
In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Elizabeth D. Jones joins the show to chat with me about:
My cat's name, the SECU DinoLab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, how Jurassic Park introduced ancient DNA research to the world, Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science, the embarrassing story of when she met paleontologist Mary Schweitzer, Schweitzer's paper: Soft tissue and cellular preservation in vertebrate skeletal elements from the Cretaceous to the present, < !! , the moral obligation of sharing history, The Jurassic Park Effect, debunking the Jurassic Park Hypothesis, figurative contamination, the problems with media taking the implications of some studies too far, 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner Svante Pääbo, celebrity science, if we can't clone dinosaurs, what extinct animals CAN we clone?, Colossal Biosciences and George Church, Snuffy, Cretaceous Creatures, the Duelling Dinosaurs!, dinosaur diets, more sense, and much more!
Plus dinosaur news about:
An exquisitely preserved in-ovo theropod dinosaur embryo sheds light on avian-like prehatching postures
Osteology and phylogenetic relationshipsof Ligabuesaurus leanzai (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the EarlyCretaceous of the Neuquén Basin, Patagonia, Argentina
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Sally Ride.  Outro: Maybe Days.
The Fifth Iteration
“Flaws in the system will not become severe” (p. 269).
The Text:
This week’s text is Search, spanning from pages 271 – 276.
Synopsis:
Gennaro and Muldoon investigate the site of the hadrosaur stampede when Arnold radios them, saying that he’s found Nedry’s stolen Jeep! Meanwhile, Grant awakens in the raft flowing down the river to Lex and Tim quarrelling about their dad, while microceratopses bounce in the branches above them.
When Muldoon and Gennaro reach the second Jeep, they find Nedry’s corpse and don’t bother “collecting him,” but do prioritize the weaponry, before returning to the site of the stampede. But there’s no sign of the Big Rex, so they have to wait for her to reappear.
Meanwhile, Grant and the kids flow up to the Aviary, and they climb out of the raft in search of a telephone or motion sensors.
Discussions surround:
Timeline, Contrivances in Plot, Park Management, Island Layout and Poetic Justice.
Corrections:
I totally didn't go to Raleigh, North Carolina on a road trip to see A Perfect Circle - I almost certainly went to Columbus, Ohio. My mistake!
Side effects: 
May cause you to have a frustratingly difficult morning, but turn it all around with a fun conversation about dinosaurs!
 
Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).
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

Episode 47 - The Park

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 47 - The Park.
In this episode, my terrific guest Gavin Bradley joins the show to chat with me about:
Living in Edmonton, paleontology in Alberta, Dinosaur Park the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ireland, prospecting for fossils, the dinosaur paleofauna of Alberta, publishing academic papers, estimating body mass with dollar-store dinosaur figures, the connectivity in paleofauna between North America and Asia, gregarious Gorgosaurs, Dino 101 at the U of A, Separation Anxiety, his award-winning book of poetry, depicting tyrannosaurs in the novel, swimming dinosaurs, extant phylogenetic bracket for dinosaur hypotheses, and much more!
Plus dinosaur news about:
What The Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain (the amphibian visual cortex)
Hadrosauroid Jaw Mechanics and the Functional Significance of the Predentary Bone
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/ 
Intro: Hummingbird.  Outro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.
The Text:
This week’s text is The Park, spanning from pages 260 – 268.
Synopsis:
Grant, Lex and Tim scare away a maiasaura, climb down the tree and head back to the maintenance shed to get a raft to float down the Jungle River. Meanwhile, Arnold steps away from the monitors to meet with Hammond and Wu. Grant and the kids find a tranquilizer gun and head to the dock at the Lagoon. But the Big Rex is there, sleeping, so they sneak into the raft, but Lex blows their getaway by coughing, awakening Big Rex, and having her swim after them. 
Discussions surround:
The Dinoasurs, Timeline, Amphibian Visual Cortex, Tension, Feminism, Contrivances in Plot, Plotting the Book, God Complex, Chricton Tropes, and Island Layout.  
Side effects: 
May cause you to awkwardly quote T.S. Eliot and John Keats.
Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).
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