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Episode 2 - Prologue: 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 

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:

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

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

You can stream this on YouTube, as well.

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!

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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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