Jurassic Park Cast

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. 
Take twice daily, and seven times weekly: 
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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 

Episode 4 - Puntarenas

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 4 - Puntarenas 
In this episode, my terrific guest "Rob" chats with me about:
running with the bulls in Turin, travelling the world, when animals attack, visiting beautiful rainforests, coatimundis, reptile bites, Jurassic Park, dinosaurs, watching movies in 3-D, motion sickness, the most hilarious story about vomiting I know, imagining what dinosaurs must have been like, Disney+, Star Wars, The Lost World, Jurassic Park, and drinking pool water.
Plus dinosaur news about:
Dzharaonyx eski
Bashanosaurus primitivus
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases 
Intro: Death of a Dream. Outro: Sleepyhead.
The Text: 
Dr. Cruz puts Tina in an oxygen tent, after she’s fallen desperately ill from a mysterious lizard’s bites. The doctor calls for a specialist (Dr. Guitierrez) to help identify the lizard that bit Tina, so they can apply any antivenin if necessary. After hearing the unusual description of the lizard, Guitierrez identifies it as a basilisk lizard. They’re not poisonous, but he explains Tina must be allergic to reptiles.
Discussions include Xenophobia, The Dinosaurs, Due Diligence, Feminism, Jurassic Park's MacGuffin and Building a Mystery.
May cause anal leakage: 
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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 

Episode 3 - Almost Paradise

0:00 - Intro
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 3 - Almost Paradise 
3:19 - A new South African dimosauromorph 
4:49 - What's the newest species of Kritosaurus from Patagonia?
5:52 - Why the new names for Tyrannosaurus rex?
7:59 - Special guest interview with Kristoph Ochs of SNALE
18:33 - What's the movie Carnosaur about?
46:00 - Was Godzilla (1999) under pressure to immitate Jurassic Park? 
51:37 - The original cast of Jurassic Park in Jurassic World: Dominion
55:21 - Would you recommend Tammy and the T. Rex?
58:53 - Turning to the text
59:10 - Chapter Synopsis for Almost Paradise - Jurassic Park
1:04:07 - Analyzing the literary and stylistic techniques
In this episode, my terrific guest Kristoph Ochs chats with me about: 
Family abductions, cinephelia, Carnosaur (1993), Jurassic Park, directing, film making, Ghostbusters, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, the upcoming Jurassic World Dominion, returning cast members Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Jeff Goldbloom, Tammy and the T-Rex, Denise Richards, and Paul Walker.
Plus dinosaur news about:
a dinosauromorph that bridges continents 
Kritosaurus australis, and
Tyrannosaurus rex, tyrannosaurus regina and tyrannosaurus imperator
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases 
Intro: Sleepyhead. Outro: Atom-Age Vampire-Cat In The Brain.
First Iteration:
“At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen” – Ian Malcolm Almost Paradise: (pgs. 11 – 15)
In July 1989, the Bowman family (Mike, Ellen and Tina) visit a remote beach during a two-week holiday. According to guidebooks, Cabo Blanco was unspoiled wilderness, almost a paradise (p. 11). The Bowmans squabble as they reach the isolated, pristine white beach. Tina runs off – to get away from her parents’ incessant bickering – and discovers a strange lizard, that bites her. 
Discussions surround quarrelling dialogue, Crichton's crutches (the Believe me! trope, the worrywart, and inherited traits), parallels and paradigms, safety, hubris/control, and Mystery Building. 
Do not take on an empty stomach: 
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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 

Episode 2 - The Bite of The Raptor

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 2 - Prologue: The Bite of The Raptor 
0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Thank you to SNALE the rock band!
1:35 - Could Brevidentavis feel with its teeth?
2:55 - Who was Meemannavis named after?
3:17 - What's so strange about Chilesaurus? 
4:16 - In this episode, my terrific guest Adam Leggett chats with me about:
33:28 - Prologue: The Bite Of The Raptor
48:45 - The art of deception by Ed Regis in Jurassic Park
52:40 - Mystery building
In this episode, my terrific guest Adam Leggett chats with me about: 
Not remembering things, liking dinosaurs, Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, child audiences, opening scenes, military endings, Lord of the Flies, finding connections where there are none to find, Crichton novels, Sphere, Congo, film adaptations, surprise appearnaces from Vince Vaughan and Julianne Moore, Andromeda Strain, water sources, iconic movie moments, comedic relief, the unspoken backstory of Dr. Henry Wu, and how momentous Jurassic Park was and remains today.
Plus dinosaur news about:
Chilesaurus diegosuarezi
Brevidentavis zhangi
Meemannavis ductrix
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases 
Intro: Atom-Age Vampire-Cat In The Brain. Outro: Hummingbird.
Text: 
Our point-of-view character for this chapter is Dr. Bobbie Carter, who is shocked when a helicopter arrives through a horrible storm carrying a fatally wounded construction worker. She’s lied to about the injury, told that it’s a construction accident, when it’s clearly a mauling – and then the injured worker speaks: raptor before vomiting blood and spasming on the floor, to his death. Then the body and all evidence of the injury are whisked away by the InGen Construction Sikorsky, and they’re gone forever. The word raptor makes the not-usually-superstitious Costa Rican aides at the clinic extraordinarily superstitious, because it reminds them of the hupia, a vampiric spirit that kidnaps newborns. Carter looks up the word in the dictionary and see that it means: bird of prey.
Discussion surrounds how to read "Raptor," raptor bites, being sick v. being injured, the art of deception, half-baked ideas, power and safety, the Safety Dance, and Building a Mystery. 
 
May cause drowsiness. Do not take prior to operating heavy machinery: 
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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 

Episode 1 - Introduction ”The InGen Incident”

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 1 - Introduction "The InGen Incident" 
0:00 - Introduction
1:45 - Featuring the Music of SNALE the rock band
2:32 - What dinosaurs did Confractosuchus eat?
3:40 - New Argentinian abelisaur Guemesia ochoai
4:30 - new Iberian titanosaur Abditosaurus kuehnei
5:35 - new Iberian spinosaur Iberospinus natarioi
7:08 - Special guests Phil and Lindsay Longpre
28:45 - Introduction to Jurassic Park. What was the InGen Incident?
30:41 - When did the InGen Incident take place?
34:40 - How does chaos theory connect to Jurassic Park?
35:25 - Crichton's depiction of John Hammond
In this episode, my terrific guests Phil and Lindsay Longpre chat with me about Jurassic Park the movie, the novel, ecological criticism, John Hammond, the goldrush, bio technology and more!
Plus dinosaur news about:
Cretaceous croc confractosuchus sauroktonos (with an unidentified ornithopod)
Iberian titanosaur Abditosaurus kuehnei, 
Argentinian abelisaur Guemesia ochoai, and 
Iberian spinosaur Iberospinus natarioi.
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases 
Intro: Hummingbird. Outro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.
The Text:
Introduction: “The InGen Incident”                                         ix
As a synopsis, this is an essay by Crichton that outlines that biotechnology and genetic engineering have been rushed with furious haste, for profits.
The biotechnology revolution differs in three important respects from past scientific transformations.
1)      it is broad-based: 500 corporations spend $5 billion a year on biotechnology
2)      much of the research is thoughtless or frivolous
3)      the work is uncontrolled
Most concerning, “no watchdogs are found among scientists themselves.” Scientists are no more ethical in pursuing science than the capitalists pursuing the science (x).
The whimsical use of biotechnology should concern us all (ix). And everyone is a stakeholder (x).
Science is no longer pursued for the betterment of mankind (x). Galileo proceeded with “science as a free and open inquiry into the workings of nature.” Scientists traditionally operated above politics and war, rebelling against secrecy in research and frowning upon patents – working for the betterment of all mankind.
Crichton labels a clear moment when the betterment of all switched to patents for profit: April 1976. Venture capitalist Robert Swanson bankrolled biochemist Hebert Boyer (both real people) to launch Genetech, a real business who’s Wikipedia page includes no mention of Jurassic Park…
They, standing on the shoulders of giants (those giants being British researchers James Watson and Francis Crick, who deciphered the structure of DNA), launched a trend-setting, gene-splicing new world of genetic engineering enterprise (x). This led to a “significant shift in attitude,” says Crichton (xi).
We’re told of the “InGen Incident” where fewer than 20 people were on a remote island off the west coast of Costa Rica, in the final two days of August 1989, and only a handful survived. By Oct. 5, 1989, InGen was bankrupt.
Discussions surround world building, foreshadowing, Hammond personified,  
 
Take only as recommended: 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 

Pilot Episode - Epigraphs

0:00 - Intro
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. 
In this episode, I introduce myself (hi) and the podcast, and cover everything from the front cover to the epigraphs. 
3:14 - My first time reading Jurassic Park
8:20 - What's this podcast all about?
11:00 - Microceratops
11:43 - Dedication
12:00 - The do the Epigraphs in Jurassic Park mean?
14:50 - Erwin Chargaff's quote in Jurassic Park
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases 
Intro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature. Outro: Latebloomer. 
Please enjoy responsibly: Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean: The Pilot Episode.
The Epigraphs
“Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale colour, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them.” – Linnaeus 1797.
“You cannot recall a new form of life.” Erwin Chargaff – 1972 
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